Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 10 10:12:09 PDT 2009



Jason Galyon wrote:
> Here it is being utilized for opengl rendering in which it needs to know
> screen modes.  Perhaps there is a better way to extract the needed
> information (resolution and depth I believe is all it needs).

Screen resolution & depth are part of the core X protocol & libX11 API - you
don't need any extension to get them.   If it needs to know more than that
what do you expect Xvfb to report?   Would a screen refresh rate of 0Hz make
the application happy even if it is technically correct?

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